It must be time for a ‘mast year’ for humanity, when we decide not to give up, but to rise again to the challenge ...

A video essay on the environmentalist's use of nuclear fear to jumpstart a movement. Looking specifically at Nuclear Fallout, Paul Ehrlich's Population Bomb, and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

In an ever-changing world it is essential to celebrate her astonishing lifetime of science, advocacy, humanitarianism, hope, ...

Frank wrote the Ark during his tenure as Audubon magazine’s field editor—a position he held for 45 years. In that span Frank ...

As Audubon magazine’s Field Editor for 45 years, Frank Graham, Jr. brought the beauty and resilience of nature into focus—as ...

Brooklyn Public Library is one of the nation’s largest library systems and among New York City’s most democratic institutions.

Given how the Republicans who run Congress let health insurance premiums for over 24 million Americans explode by not acting ...

Eighty years since the end of World War II, the British are recalling many battles fought on the path to victory. Yet one ...

History Today was launched, but in what ways? I can’t remember when I first read History Today: probably not in 1951, when I was seven, but soon afterwards my parents bought me a subscription, since ...

Marshall Curry’s “The New Yorker at 100” takes the measure of the venerable publication as a compact primer aiming to please ...

The EPA was created because Americans demanded a federal agency that would safeguard their right to breathe clean air, drink safe water, and live on uncontaminated land. We must remember the disasters ...

For more than 30 years, science has warned that organophosphate pesticides damage developing brains, especially in pregnant women and children, writes local activist and retired nurse. Yet the ...